Accountant

Accountant

Location: 100% Remote Role Duration: 08 Months Callouts: This is a remote role. EST or CST candidates only. Advanced Excel experience 2-4 years

Job Description:

• Under general direction, responsible for the more complex accounting activities including analyzing accounting transactions & issues, preparing journal entries, maintaining a complete and accurate general ledger, preparing & analyzing financial reports and enhancing internal controls over financial reporting. This is a senior-skill level normally without supervisory responsibility.
• However, may provide guidance and direction to other client employees in support of producing high quality, timely and cost-effective accounting solutions. Works independently with minimal guidance using knowledge of business operations and accounting
• Under general supervision, responsible for increasingly complex accounting activities including analyzing accounting transactions and issues, preparing journal entries, maintaining a complete and accurate general ledger, preparing and analyzing financial reports, and testing and monitoring internal controls over financial reporting.
• Works with regular guidance in own area of knowledge.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluates accounting policies and procedures to reflect changes in business conditions, processes, and accounting guidance.
• Prepares more complex accounting analyses and journal entries.
• Prepares and analyzes financial statements and other internal/external financial reports.
• Enhances internal controls over financial reporting.
• Uses best practices and knowledge of internal/external business issues to improve products or services. Solves more complex problems taking a new perspective on existing solutions.
• Provides functional advice or training to less-experienced accountant positions.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May direct the work of other staff members.
• Increases and applies knowledge of legal and regulatory issues and changes in accounting guidance.
• Prepares increasingly complex accounting analyses and journal entries.
• Prepares and analyzes financial statements and other internal/external financial reports.
• Assists in the tracking & reporting of internal controls over financial reporting, and recommends enhancements to such controls.
• Solves a range of increasingly complex accounting problems; analyzes possible solutions and makes recommendations.
• Related to all of the above processes, expected to develop supporting work papers and documentation.
• Builds knowledge of the organization processes and customers and technical accounting.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in business discipline with at least 3 accounting courses and 5 years accounting experience OR bachelor's degree in accounting with 3-5 years of accounting-related experience.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications; use of excel/word is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, MBA, or other advanced degree in business discipline.
• CPA or CMA certification.
• Experience in utility accounting, public accounting and SEC reporting, and a working knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to research technical accounting guidance.
• Requires excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Requires excellent interpersonal skills.